Paul wanted to remind everybody that P.B. We had an affair here 10 years ago, and all these great athletes came back to the school. We went to South Park near Manual Arts one day, and those guys stole all our clothes after we beat em. That home run he hit against Claude Osteen in the Orioles 1966 World Series sweep of the Dodgers was amazing.Īs the stories flowed from old buddies, there were frequent references to Blairs flair for expressing himself. When Paul got signed by the Mets in 1961, I felt like I got signed, said Reggie McFerren, Blairs infield partner at Manual Arts. Paul was all-everything, a great athlete, and he loved to talk - thats why all the girls liked him, said classmate Charles Russell, who moved from operating the film projector in the Manual Arts auditorium to a 45-year career as a video engineer for Disney and ABC, having a hand in four Emmy-winning productions. He was ahead of his time, talking as good a game as he played while answering to Motormouth in the company of Baltimore teammates in the franchises glory days of the 1960s and 70s. They remembered his love of words and the colorful, nonstop use of them.īlair was more than a center fielder with few equals, a four-time World Series champion with the Orioles and the Yankees. Blairs former classmates, friends and family members remembered an athletic marvel who scored a school-record 54 points in a basketball game and who would launch long home runs - and wild throws from shortstop - on the baseball diamond.

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